Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
BYRON KATIEThe ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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